This feels strange. Social media is already a central part of modern life

OKRainbowKid 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How is it strange? As far as I know, there's quite some research on negative impact of social media on teens mental health. How is restricting access to specific age groups fundamentally different from restricting access to cigarettes or alcohol?

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alexgoodhart 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because speech and communication obviously. That’s a ridiculous comparison.

I am very much not a pro-social media person (this is a social media website, btw) but I am even less a nanny state person. EU loses plenty of support from the citizens of its constituent states when it implements these sorts of limitations, so I hope the benefits meaningfully improve quality of life.

Also, research is not a prescriptive cure, and it isn’t a neutral domain. It is valuable, but not as an unevaluated rubber stamp.

	▲	OKRainbowKid 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not a ridiculous comparison in a world where Meta faces a 1.4T lawsuit over their core platform design being addictive to young people. And that lawsuit isn't brought by the EU, but by US states. So clearly there is more to it than "EU nanny state bad, US wild west good". https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/meta-meta-...

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Chu4eeno 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Didn't the testifying UK academics explicitly say the current research was inconclusive?

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bushwart 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You don't need to show your government ID to enter a supermarket.

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OKRainbowKid 5 hours ago | parent [-]

And you don't need it to access the internet either.

	▲	t0mpr1c3 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Have you tried to watch a YouTube video in the UK recently?

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_aavaa_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So was alcohol.

The problem is doing it in a way that doesn’t removal all privacy.